ABC: Cell Phone Locator App Keeps Pointing People to the Same Wrong Address

In the two years that Dobson has lived in his one-story home with his wife, five people--all missing their Sprintcell phones--have come knocking on his door, demanding that he return their handsets.

If a GPS tracker for your lost cell phone leads you to Dobson's home, you'll find a sign outside his door in North Las Vegas, Nev., that reads, "No lost cell phones!! This location gives a false 'phone locator' position due to a cell tower behind this home. Please contact the North Las Vegas Police and file a report."

The GPS trackers are basically putting this guy's life in danger, also sending cops to his door tracking 911 calls that actually came from somewhere else. Further down, it also reports that he sleeps by the door on the weekends because it's easier to answer the door when drunks start banging on it in the middle of the night.

Normally, we'd dismiss this kind of reporting as artificially creating a trend out of an anecdote but Kim doesn't do that - she just reports it as a crazy thing that happened to this one guy and the article never raises the question of why there isn't a federal commission or a class-action lawsuit on behalf of all people who live near towers against the GPS manufacturer.

Sprint didn't make a spokesperson avaialble on the record (or if they did, he or she didn't say enough to warrent being identified) and the company's leadership could have been a lot more aggressive in responding to the problem and provided more information to readers about its cause.

People already have enough reasons to hate their cell phone service providers, this seems like a further example of making it too easy.